Ethan Warren is the author of the book The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, coming April 2023 from Columbia University Press.

LICORICE PIZZA
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LICORICE PIZZA

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode nine explores PTA’s loosest and loopiest picture - LICORICE PIZZA.

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PHANTOM THREAD
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PHANTOM THREAD

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode eight explores PTA’s unexpectedly boundless Merchant Ivory riff - PHANTOM THREAD.

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INHERENT VICE
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INHERENT VICE

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode seven explores PTA’s “odyssey of a man sifting through the clues at the murder scene of a wayward generation to relocate the love of a woman he has lost” - INHERENT VICE.

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THE MASTER
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THE MASTER

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode six explores PTA’s - THE MASTER

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THERE WILL BE BLOOD
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode five explores PTA’s dizzying cinematic embodiment of American hypocrisy, a film as moving as a Renaissance fresco in a cathedral - THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

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PUNCH DRUNK LOVE
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PUNCH DRUNK LOVE

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode four explores PTA’s career hinge point - the magnificent, quaint, and introverted rom-com - PUNCH DRUNK LOVE.

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MAGNOLIA
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MAGNOLIA

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode three explores PTA’s admirably bold, “great/terrible”, “drunk and disorderly”, interpersonal epic - MAGNOLIA.

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BOOGIE NIGHTS
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BOOGIE NIGHTS

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode two explores PTA’s decade-straddling epic of what Roger Ebert called “living and dying by the sword,” euphemism intended.

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HARD EIGHT / SYDNEY
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HARD EIGHT / SYDNEY

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode One explores PTA’s debut feature - released as “Hard Eight” but referred to (by PTA and his acolytes) as “Sydney”.

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